Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist.
Title [Calligraphic label on folder] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1888-1901
Date [ca. 1888-ca. 1901]
Physical Description 1 item : ink drawing on cardboard mount; overall 34 x 27 cm (13.25 x 10.5 in)
Description Calligraphic label reading: A Number of Vehicles, in use about Fifty years ago; sketched at the places and in the years, as indicated on the drawings, now enlarged executed in 1865 and 1888, by Augs. Kollner, Phila. (Formerly Calligrapher in Lithography.) Most of the calligraphy is in cursive. Kollner's signature is in Gothic letters.
Notes Item mounted on front cover of empty cardboard folder.
Memorandum in type to Mr. Wainwright from Henry Shaw Newman, The Old Print Shop, Inc. dated November 26, 1962 pasted on inside back cover: Dear Mr. Wainwright: Perhaps you can find a a place for the label on this old folder, now empty, alas. When it came to us some years ago it had some Kollner water colors in it, but not vehicles, as I recall. I find it interesting because of his own "ex post facto" statement. hsn/ea. Dictated but not signed by Mr. Newman.
Label pasted inside front cover: Patented Jan. 21, 1901.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Biographical / historical note Augustus Kollner (1813-1906) a German-born and trained Philadelphia lithographer began to focus his career more on drawing and painting in the 1860s. During the 1880s, he executed watercolors based on earlier sketches and often mounted them and placed them in albums for sale.
Subject Calligraphy.
Genre Ink drawings -- 1880-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Kollner [P.2017.8.34]
Accession number P.2017.8.34